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BumRushDaShow

(143,427 posts)
Tue Dec 10, 2024, 08:13 PM Tuesday

For now, 'Dreamers' will be shut out of the health care marketplace in 19 states

Source: AP

Updated 4:07 PM EST, December 10, 2024


BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Young adult immigrants known as “Dreamers” in 19 U.S. states will be temporarily blocked from getting health insurance through the Affordable Care Act’s public marketplace, a federal judge has ruled, limiting an effort by the Biden administration to help immigrants brought to the country illegally as children.

Judge Daniel Traynor of the U.S. District Court in North Dakota issued the order Monday from Bismarck, dealing a setback to a Biden administration rule that was estimated to allow 147,000 immigrants to enroll for coverage. Traynor’s ruling came in a lawsuit filed over the policy and will remain in effect until the matter can go to trial.

The ruling applies to immigrants in 19 states where Republican attorneys general sued to avoid having to comply with the new policy. They cited concern over immigrants possibly qualifying for public subsidies available to many people insured under the ACA.

The GOP state officials argued that the rule created earlier this year by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services would be a strong incentive for immigrants to remain in the U.S. illegally and could creating costs for states. They argued that both the Affordable Care Act and a 1996 law prohibit U.S. government benefits flowing to immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/migrant-health-care-dreamers-lawsuit-504c8f05b3d93538cb7292318c267441

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Deuxcents

(19,950 posts)
2. This is insane. Dreamers are contributing to the fabric of this country by being lawful, educated
Tue Dec 10, 2024, 08:27 PM
Tuesday

And paying taxes while working hard with their own businesses or employed by others. Just nuts.

kerry-is-my-prez

(9,346 posts)
4. It's pro-rich-white male life. And fetuses life. The rest of the people can die.
Tue Dec 10, 2024, 08:54 PM
Tuesday

The working class will soon find that out.

no_hypocrisy

(49,038 posts)
5. Imagine another pandemic and Dreamers can't get vaccines or medical
Tue Dec 10, 2024, 08:57 PM
Tuesday

assistance. Likely the pandemic would be harder to contain, not to mention more mortalities.

Hekate

(95,042 posts)
6. Imagine drug-resistant TB & you sitting in the next row at the movies. Or someone hacking away on the bus...
Wed Dec 11, 2024, 04:10 AM
20 hrs ago

…with gods know what while you contemplate the closed widows. Or your kid in school… Then of course there’s the meat processing plant, where you don’t work, but undocumented immigrants do.

There’s a thing called enlightened self-interest, where you make sure other people have access to health care so you don’t get sick.

I get so damn tired of the stupidity of the MAGAGOPs.

Vinca

(51,157 posts)
8. That's beyond stupid. So if they get sick they'll go to the ER where taxpayers will pick up a much bigger tab
Wed Dec 11, 2024, 08:21 AM
16 hrs ago

than any subsidy they might have gotten if they were on the ACA.

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